Hummel v. Bank of Monroe

1. Agency: when principal not bonnd by agent's knowledge. — The substance of the petition in each case is that one R. C. Anderson, who at the time was defendant’s cashier and general business ^ manager, defendant being a corporation , engaged m a general banking business, by means of certain false and fraudulent representations as to his financial condition and the uses to which he intended to devote the money to be obtained thereon, induced plaintiff to execute to him an accommodation promissory note for five thousand dollars ; that he afterwards negotiated said note to an innocent…